Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa says the Council has intensified sensitization and awareness in ensuring that Cholera outbreak does not occur in Lusaka upon the first rains.
Mr Sampa said Council Officials are busy passing door to door to verify if everyone has registered for garbage collection and those found in breach will be penalized.
The civic leader disclosed this to ZANIS in an interview yesterday.
Mr Sampa said that in order to fight cholera, the council is on the ground ensuring that all residents in the city have clean drinking water and have chlorine in all public toilets used in bus stations, bars and markets to enhance acceptable health standards for trading places.
“We have been around in all the epicenters such as Kanyama, Mtendere, Misisi and Chipata compounds to remind people not to drink water from shallow wells and if they use water from these wells they should boil it before drinking,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Mayor reiterated the desire to decongest the traffic in the city by introduction of communal buses.
“Any city in the world that is thriving do have communal buses which are time bound. You know it’s going to leave Kalingalinga at 10:10 and arrive in town at 10:20 with or without passengers it moves to follow time” he said.
Mr Sampa explained that people can leave their cars home because there is a
reliable bus, that won’t come to replace anybody it’s an open market and we still need the minibuses.
The civic leader disclosed that his Council is in the process of formulating a bus company owned by the council.
He revealed that the Council will procure 70 buses, ten for each constituency in the city.
Mr Sampa said this move will ease the transportation blues in Lusaka.
PF brought this cholera when they allowed uncontrolled street vending to gain votes.And if LCC had proper systems in place the mayor wouldn’t need to get down and dirty. Tokyo and London mayors don’t do gutter job they have bigger visions – they have systems where lower cadres to keep drains working 24/7.
Good one Boss,actions like this change mindsets
You also need to change the designs of those filthy ditches you call drainage. Send your men to Rwanda to learn how to build a clean city.
They should just park Chakolwa’s luxury Jet in those trenches, & BOOM!! the dirt will dissapear, & clean water spring from the earth like manna from heaven, soon after the P.F NATIONAL DAY OF FRAUDULENT PRAYER.
That is how this Government led by a perpetual drunk prioritizes things